Here's my pooch Bran. Useless watchdog, world's sweetest temperament and an ambassador from the dog world. Put her in a room with 8 people, 7 of whom like dogs, and she will immediately trot up to the non-dog person to make friends. She often succeeds. Children can attempt to ride her, pull her fur , etc,, and she'll just pull away and continue to play with them. Her grandfather won Best of Herding Class twice at Westminster and hundreds of herding titles which might be impressive if she didn't have thousands of half-siblings. Nice work if you can get it, Grandpa Flapjack.